Opinion: De-Doping Baseball

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... I ... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... this week major League baseball suspended Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers for the rest of the season ... is baseball finely getting rid of doping ... Wall Street Journal Bartley fellow Harry Graver joins me now carry ... the league baseball isn't the Tour de France non but been tilting has really changed the game in the last couple of years I ... have ... it's a lot worse in that order France the minutes of its incredibly ... much less worse now isn't a bigger sport ... in some more importance for ... but it's been a longstanding problem that has corrupted the chicken generation baseball players ... of this in a palm sincerely nineties and finally ... the players' unions catching up ... to where sports as a band where fans of inward players have been where everyone has been calling to clean up the game ... but funny delaying baseball star putting this plan in action no ... more importance for the two are different I I agree area I'll fall or French viewers heard that too ... so so why is it that the unions protected ... these baseball players for so long and had been thinking ... well it's the same way that any largely of organization protects their employees no matter what ... of ... they can pretty much do anything for a long time ... Marvin Miller was the big ... executive director for a promotion the patron saint created the baseball players he knows is today ... did not think the baseball player should be treated any different than any other employee there just network ... which George Will's book was but ... they ... shouldn't be subject to any scrutiny no tests ... no punishments nothing ... and that's been the mentality for a long time and and so the player said no we're not listening to testing by the way if you wanna go get players better than us good luck was that this effectively argue pre much and ... they're the talent ... and they have some bargaining power ... and this was something that tickled really long time to deal with in collective bargaining agreements made this difficult than it was watered down even when they made concessions ... but ... TV Xeon steroids are banned in nineteen ninety one ... and the contest with them until two thousand to ... and in that period people hitting seventy home runs in every single record being broken ... by and people knew exactly was happening but ... this fund agencies have their hands ... so what have what's changed why why is baseball able to finally address this problem a new one point enough is enough ... Michael leaders unused second tractors eminently more reasonable miss the union idea of the of the union is and in the resort than anyone else has held that position ... aam ... and he's willing to essentially say that ... with players that are egregiously guilty we're not can a stand up for them anymore Newry and Cronje had had had a lot of Proms to this isn't exactly a surprise is in his stories terrible on what he did he was caught in two thousand eleven the year that he won than Ashley NPP ... and what he did was to challenge the legitimacy of this ... some see this FedEx collector ... good chance for his urine sample from place a to put crispy and you ... ruined his reputation ... he When ruthlessly after this kind and up winning an appeal to the one vote ... by turns adios line then and the same way that it's ... just kept on going well it finally caught up to lease out for the rest of the season so so what's next in his next read about him and yet so in baseball there's a few other players ... a better place to get suspended since Alex Rodriguez is the big one and reports of the evidence against a ride ... on a much more than one against fraud ... which cash in on to wipe suspension which we see the allegations the reloading on the privy to everything squeaking out bit by bit ... aam but it can happen any moment ... outside of baseball this is seems to set a good present the NFL ... is meeting with their players' union today to talk about ... testing for human growth hormone which is a huge change this is something that was not ... anywhere on the radar ... a few years ago ... so there are some ripple effect baseball that can help clean up a lot of other sports to ... okay so we need a baseball maybe cleaning up the rest of the National Sports in this